Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz may have let the cat out of the bag on Apple's plans for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard's file system. While showing off the Zettabyte File System in Sun's 'Thumper' hybrid storage/server platform at a company event in Washington today, Schwartz let it drop that Apple too has big plans for the open source file …

ZFS has been rumoured for sometime now.

HFS+

Man its time for HFS+ to die out. What'd that debut in, OS 8.5? It has to be the only popularish filesystem that makes NTFS look good. I just hope Sun made some decent money in the deal...

Then again, is there a case-insensitive version of ZFS? I know that if you run OS X with a case-sensitive file system lots of fun issues come up. (Dreamweaver, the horrible program that it is, attempts to access its own scripts with multiple different cases, so it just totally breaks.)

I do wonder how Apple will attempt to impliment all the complex features of ZFS in a nice, friendly GUI. They'll probably just not let you get at all the fun bits... typical.

Old news

I thought this was already a definate - i could have sworn it was explained that ZFS is the underlying tech behind time machine when it was first demo'd.

also Webster - I bet you are a typical Mac user that just doesn't maintain his system - when is the last time you ran a permissions and disk verify/repair - go into applications-utilities-disk utility and give them a click - it'll probably help

re: Anything is Better than the POS Apple File System!!

Webster -

EVERY time I get a complaint from a Windows-orientated developer about their Mac dev machine playing up, I walk over to find that their Mac is in a total mess. It's because whilst they are competent Windows users, their experience using a Mac is lacking.

Slag off XCode, Finder etc. on face value sure, but leave Windows vs Mac comparisons out of it please.

Not loved by all

The subheader "A file system loved by all" I think is not that adequate. The Linux community has raised all kind of restrictions and blames on ZFS. Most of the objections has a "Not invented here" smell...

I think. . .

Hmm...

Freaky - Never happened to me, had other issues but not that one. Had many problems with Windows and Linux too, fancy that...

Nexox Enigma - Attacking the OS cos a 3rd party app is poorly written? Naughty. FYI I haven't found an Adobe app that will actually function on a case-sensitve file system, I really couldn't believe that a major software house would employ such lazy programming.